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OBITUARY. 
John R. Hart, V. M. D. 
With much regret the Review is called upon to announce 
the death of this earnest and well-known veterinarian, which 
occurred at the German Hospital, Philadelphia, shortly after i 
o’clock, Monday afternoon, March 29th, whither he had been 
removed suffering from acute appendicitis, with the hope that 
an operation might save his useful life, but his strength ebbed 
so rapidly that the surgeons deemed that procedure unwise. 
He became unconscious at 8 A. m. of the morning on which he 
died, and remained in that condition until the end. While not 
well for two or three weeks prior, he did not take to his bed 
until the Thursday previous to his death, and grew rapidly 
worse, as described. 
Few members of the veterinary profession were better 
known or held in greater esteem than Dr. Hart, who was in 
every sense a self-made man. He was born May 9, 1849, 
Hampton, N. J., but removed to Philadelphia at a tender age. 
He studied with a practitioner of that city, and was for a num¬ 
ber of years actively engaged in the practice of the profession 
which he loved so well. Being of a very studious temperament, 
and scrupulously honorable, he was not content with his posi¬ 
tion in medicine, and, although the head of a large family, in 
possession of a lucrative business, and well advanced in years, 
he became a student at the University of Pennsylvania, from 
which he took his degree. For a great many years, and until 
his death, he was city veterinarian of Philadelphia, having 
charge of the horses of the Police and Fire departments, and it 
was through his exertions that the admirable City Veterinary 
Hospital was erected. 
Dr. Hart took a great interest in association work, and was 
a member and officer in most of those to which he was eligible, 
being President of the Keystone, Treasurer of the Pennsylvania 
State, and an enthusiastic member of the Committee on Army 
Legislation of the United States. In our report of the last 
meeting of the last-named association we drew attention to the 
extreme earnestness of the deceased in his desire to secure the 
passage of the Army Bill, pledging his own private purse to de¬ 
fray the necessary expenses in pushing the-measure in case the 
association failed to make the necessary appropriation. At the 
last meeting of the Pennsylvania Association, at which he was 
